Paula Block, then of CBS Consumer Products, was responsible for approving proposals and all completed manuscripts for the licensed media tie-ins, and granted many such uses of TAS material since Roddenberry's passing.

Over the years, many academic settings have adopted other names for the study of home economics, such as Human Sciences, Human Ecology, and Family and Consumer Sciences.

The Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 has clarified this area of concern by making changes to the U. S. Bankruptcy Code that include, along with many other reforms, language imposing a means test for Chapter 7 cases.

The Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index is the most widely accepted index among the United States media, businesspeople, and many consumers.

According to Consumer Reports, as many as 56 % of Americans don't have a will.

It has many programs that include, Art, Band, Spanish, Computer tech, and Family and Consumer sciences along with the other basic classes that public schools provide.

Consumer level digital cameras suffer from image noise over long exposures, so there are many techniques for cooling the camera, including cryogenic cooling.

The latest consumer electronics are previewed yearly at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, at which many industry pioneers speak.

The way in which owner-occupied dwellings should be dealt with in a Consumer Price Index has been, and remains, a subject of heated controversy in many countries.

This cost, according to many economists, is what should form a component of a Consumer Price Index.

Microsoft has stated that the " CE " is not an intentional initialism, but many people believe CE stands for " Consumer Electronics " or " Compact Edition ".

On July 25, 2006, GE Consumer Finance released a Char Custom credit card, which receives three times as many bonus points per 1000 yen spent compared to their other Gundam-related credit cards.

There are many companies especially those in the Consumer Package Goods ( CPG ) market that adopt the theory of running their business centered around Consumer, Shopper & Retailer needs.

The Consumer Consultative Panel, in December 2009 said that they were unable to function for almost a year because officials ignored requests for meetings and " we believe it is unacceptable that the board of the financial regulation section has failed to take responsibility for their stewardship of the organisation during the last six years. They did not understand many of the sectors and financial products it regulates.

Since 2001, the university has operated the Survey and Policy Research Institute ( SPRI ), which conducts the quarterly, high-profile California Consumer Confidence Survey and many other research projects.

Additionally, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, Consumer Reports, and the trade website ApplianceAdvisor. com, have released statements claiming that Energy Star test procedures contained loopholes that allow many inefficient products to receive Energy Star labels.

In addition, the annual Consumer Electronics Show ( CES ) in the US had gained importance, and many exhibitors determined that CES was the more cost-effective show.

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns against practicing it with babies because of risk of suffocation or strangulation, but many pediatricians, breast-feeding advocates, and others have criticized this recommendation.

Consumer feedback revealed that many felt the computer-controlled light cyclers were impossibly precise in their controls ( turning at speeds a human could not, or boxing themselves in, for example ), forcing players to wait for the enemy light cycles to destroy themselves.

He was the Leader of the National Party in the Senate from 10 April 1990 to 3 December 2007 and held many positions in the Coalition shadow ministry including Shadow Minister for Regional Development and External Territories ( from September 1988 to April 1990 ), Shadow Minister for Northern Australia and External Territories ( April 1993 to May 1994 ) and Shadow Minister for Consumer Affairs ( May 1994 to December 1994 ).

It was often compared to other small mid-sizes such as the Chevrolet Malibu, and judged roomier than the Ford Contour by many magazines such as Consumer Reports.

The Aveo has received mixed reviews, while it has earned praise from many for its very low price tag, it has been criticized for poor fuel economy ( compared with other vehicles in its class ) and poor reliability by reviewers such as Consumer Reports and JD Power and Associates.

The course covers cooking, textile work ( such as sewing ), nutrition, childcare, family life, Consumer law, food science, social studies and many other topics associated with homemaking, professional cookery, culinary arts & of course many other professions.

Michael Shanks, former chairman to the National Consumer Council of Great Britain, characterizes professional gobbledygook as sloppy jargon intended to confuse nonspecialists:

* Consumer and professional Marine VHF radios.

Consumer IRDs, commonly called set-top boxes, are used by end users and are much cheaper compared to professional IRDs.

One of the earliest professional rock critics, Christgau is known for his terse capsule reviews, published since 1969 in his Consumer Guide columns.

Consumer electronics are products used in a domestic or personal context, in contrast to items used for business, industrial, or professional recording purposes.

In a review published in his Consumer Guide column, Robert Christgau wrote, " Where Self Portrait was at least weird, splitting the difference between horrible and hilarious, is now forever professional — not a single remake honors or desecrates the original.

Consumer magazine sponsored advertisement s and covers rely heavily on professional page layout skills to compete for visual attention.

As of 2012, none of the new consumer-class camcorders announced at the 2011 International Consumer Electronics Show record on tape.

Consumer high definition camcorders released by these companies since 2009 employ AVCHD format.

* Consumer camcorders by Sony, JVC, Hitachi, Matsushita and Kodak.

** Consumer: From camcorders to digital video recorder ( DVR ) and set top box models like TiVo to personal computer based recorders.

* Household Expenditure surveys do not cover the expenditures of foreign visitors, though these may be within the scope of a Consumer Price Index.

A Consumer Price Index compares how much it would cost now to do exactly what consumers did in the reference-period with what it cost then.

The Ethical Consumer Research Association once recommended that its readers do not buy Colgate because of its use of animal testing, though this is no longer the case.

Consumer Ombudsman official Bente Øverli said: " Cars cannot do anything good for the environment except less damage than others.

According to New Consumer magazine, " if you had to trust one person with changing the world you could do worse than rely on Lucas ".

Consumer Reports, a non-profit U. S .- based product-testing magazine, reported in October 2003 that air ionisers do not perform to high enough standards compared to conventional HEPA filters.

The European Scientific Committee on Consumer Products ( SCCP ) stated in 2006 that the available data on parabens do not enable a decisive response to the question of whether propyl, butyl and isobutyl paraben can be safely used in cosmetic products at individual concentrations up to 0. 4 %, which is the allowed limit in the EU.

Opponents of RALs, like as the National Consumer Law Center, argue that the profit motive of the lender results in RALs being issued too often to low-income individuals who are made to believe the wait for their refund is longer than it really is, who do not realize they are taking a loan, do not understand the high interest rates charged by the loan ( often exceeding 100 % APR until the last two tax filing seasons ), and who do not actually need the funds immediately.

Santander Consumer Bank in Norway offers a self-serve service, where clients do not have access to regular banking services, but are offered a few niche consumer products.

Impulse Convenience Consumer Goods: These are the goods which do not belong to the priority list of the consumer.

Consumer goods companies usually try to set up their shops and show rooms in active shopping area to attract customer attention and their main focus is to do lots of advertising and promotion so that to attract more customer.

The Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 applies to all contracts, but the Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999, unlike the common law rules, do differentiate between contracts between businesses and contracts between business and consumer, so the law seems to explicitly recognize the greater possibility of exploitation of the consumer by businesses.

Consumer, agricultural and housing co-operatives, working men's clubs, Women's Institute markets, allotment societies, mutual investment companies, friendly societies and housing associations usually incorporate as IPSs, as do some social enterprises.